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10/22/2006

Rhinebeck 2006

Saturday morning turned out to be a lovely day,  

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Mom and I followed the masses yesterday to Rhinebeck Sheep and wool festival. We woke up early (7am), left Mom's house at 8 and arrived at 930. To our surprise, we where able to go in early. The first stop on our list was to the fold to score some STR. Among many others, I really I couldn't help myself.

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While we where still at the Fold's booth, Mom and I met Amy from I heart knitting and Valerie from Knitting in pink!

 
Mom and I wandered around building A a little bit more, made a trip out to the truck. Our bag was getting a wee bit heavy. We walked around a little bit, saw the llama's and then met up with Adelle from Girl is Crafty for lunch.
 
After chatting with Adelle, Mom and I wandered around building E a little bit and then went over to the blogger met up. Holy.crap. There where a lot of bloggers. A lot. Many. Let's say there where many, many bloggers! Mom and I met some new people (which is great!) We met Shelby, Christine, Jody, Dana, Lisa, Cygknit, Kelly and so many more that I just can't remember right now!! Urgh!!  
 
Mom and I wondered around the barns a little bit, picked up a few more things and then we had to leave. After spending what felt like eternity trying to get out of the parking lot and almost being hit by some guy who felt he didn't have to wait in line. We made it home. Check out my haul, I was pretty good.

From left to right: CTH supersock potluck colorway brights, Socks that rock medium weight in colors purple rain, rockober, rhodonite, puck's mischief, sock candy in kiwi. In the next pic the softest merino eva (Really. EVER.) from Greenwood hill farm in silver and 5 hanks of Moorland Tweed in Skye from Autumn House farms.

Next year, honestly if I have to pick one festival to go to. Its going to be Maryland. Rhinebeck was nice, but there wasn't very much room for moving around. The barns where too small for all the people milling around, the parking attendants. Well.. it would be nice if they stuck around for the whole day to direct people out. Tomorrow the kids and I go back to PA. As always our trip isn't long enough.

 

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Wow- sounds like a fun day - the place to be!

Posted by: lynda | 10/22/2006

Agreement from chez trek on the crowding and the decision to stick to MSW next year.

Posted by: trek | 10/22/2006

Nice score on the STR woman! Good to get some feedback on the weekend.

Posted by: Cynthia | 10/22/2006

So glad to see all your stuff and the fun you had but seriously jealous that you got to hook up with everybody!

Posted by: Bev | 10/22/2006

It was great meeting you finally! I'll be posting my stash enhancement pretty soon!

Posted by: valerie | 10/23/2006

Luv the STR... I only got 1 myself it was hard to hold back! It was great to meet you, That's me in the pic with Jody and your mom:) Now hurry up and knit some sox... we wanna see how fab those colors look :)

Posted by: Tisha | 10/23/2006

Beautiful yarn! I'm glad you had a good time, even if you trip was too short. I need to start planning my next trip to the east coast for next year's wool festivals!

Posted by: Zarah | 10/23/2006

*sigh* Mucho Jealousy! Wow, you did good on the stash enhancing. It was extremely quiet in blogland this weekend, glad your back!

Posted by: Tracey | 10/23/2006

Nice pictures! Looks like you had a good time!
When is the Maryland festival? (perhaps planning ahead?)

Posted by: christine | 10/23/2006

It was great meeting you and your mom at Rhinebeck! Love those STR colors!

Posted by: Kelly | 10/23/2006

Wow - I'm cheezin hard in that pic - what a goofball I am. It was great to meet you - I'm with you on the MD trip the crowds in NY this year were just off the hook!

Posted by: Jody | 10/23/2006

Looks like a very fun time. I will have to make it back there one of these years for MD or NY.

Posted by: Cayli | 10/23/2006

Golly...I am jealous of your haul! Looks great, and the weather looked nice too!

Posted by: Suzanne | 10/23/2006

How great a day it must have been! Fun to meet all those bloggers.

Posted by: Denise | 10/24/2006

Looks like a great time, and look at that stash enrichment!

Posted by: Nonnahs | 10/25/2006

One the one hand I'm quite jealous that we don't have such a yarn festival over here in Germany. On the other hand it's good, or else I'd flip out and either buy all the yarn they have, or nothing at all because it's too much for me.
Nice stash enhancement you've got there!

Posted by: Dorothee | 10/25/2006

I have not made it to MSW yet, I think it's the timing of it all, but I will get there one day. You did get some very nice enhacements to the stash though :-)

Posted by: michelle | 10/25/2006

More Socks!!!!! Feel free to ship some my way if your stash cupboard is overflowing ;-)

Posted by: Diane | 10/30/2006

oooh, that greenwood merino looks so yummy! Nice haul.

Posted by: Juls | 11/01/2006